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Evaluation
Nundah Community Enterprises Cooperative: Economic Pathways to Refugee Integration (EPRI)
An evaluation of the Economic Pathways to Refugee Integration (EPRI) program, an Australian place-based initiative supporting refugees and humanitarian entrants with significant barriers to employment. The report outlines how the program is designed to assist individuals with low English proficiency, limited formal skills or complex settlement challenges through flexible, tailored pathways into economic participation.
Guide
Positive use guide: evidence-based insights on the impact of digital devices on child and adolescent wellbeing
This guide provides evidence-based practical tips and checklists on how to manage screen time for children and adolescents in Singapore to help them build a normalised, lifelong relationship with technology. The guide discusses how screen use has both positive and negative effects. It finds screen use has a less significant role in wellbeing than other...
Report
Snapshot of children and young people with disability in Australia
This report provides a comprehensive national overview of children and young people with disability in Australia aged 0–25. It draws on publicly available data to bring together evidence on demographics, early childhood, education, employment, health and wellbeing, housing and transport, income and finance, NDIS supports, safety and justice, and social and community participation nationwide contexts.
Journal article
How neurodivergent workers use and make sense of assistive technologies
Assistive technologies reshape how neurodivergent workers experience ability, motivation, and opportunity. Tools like screen readers reduce cognitive, sensory and socioemotional challenges, boost confidence, autonomy and agency, and lessen stigma. They also enable digital masking – concealing neurodivergence – which can expand opportunities but may create unintended negative consequences.
Report
Report of the statutory review of BetStop: the National Self-Exclusion Register
A review of BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register (NSER), a service that allows individuals to self-exclude from all Australian licensed online and telephone wagering services. The review finds that the NSER is performing an essential and much needed function in protecting those at risk of gambling harm. It makes 10 recommendations to optimise BetStop’s role.